The traditional approach to public infrastructure delivery and management has been challenged in the past decades through different forms of private capital participation. Two well established platforms for private capital participation in the context of public infrastructure procurement are the...

Führt eine private Finanzierung von Infrastrukturprojekten zu größerer Wirtschaftlichkeit, oder ist dies nur eine Umgehung der Schuldenbremse? Für Alfons Weichenrieder, Universität Frankfurt, liegt der Verdacht nahe – so ökonomisch sinnvoll im Einzelfall der Einsatz eines Public Private...

In Ergänzung zu den Beiträgen im ifo Schnelldienst 22/2014 führt Steffen Kampeter, Bundesministerium der Finanzen, aus, dass bei entsprechenden Rahmenbedingungen die Mobilisierung privaten Kapitals für öffentliche Projekte sowohl für die öffentliche Hand als auch für die privaten...

Governments world-wide have sought value for money by augmenting the traditional approach to public infrastructure delivery and management by introducing private capital. Two well established platforms for private capital participation are the Regulatory Asset Base (RAB) Model and the Project...

Companies can be valuable partners in delivering essential goods but must be appropriately motivated to participate in humanitarian crisis management. This work provides valuable insights into the status of humanitarian crisis management from the perspective of different stakeholders. It shows...

Public-private partnerships (P3s) typically rely on long-term contracts between participants. When conditions arise that fall outside the expectations embodied in the contract, one party may seek to renegotiate the contract terms. Globally, the frequency of P3 contract renegotiations has been...

This paper discusses the fundamental changes in the American health care system during the past four decades. By applying a multidimensional framework, the changing role of the state in financing, service provision, and in the regulation of the health care system are scrutinized. The results...

The famous Mohring-Harwitz theorem states that, under certain technical conditions, the degree of self-financing of congested infrastructure is equal to the elasticity of the capacity cost function in the optimum, so that under neutral scale economies exact self-financing applies. Although the...

Angesichts der Vervielfachung der Verkehrsleistung und des Individualverkehrs sowie der damit verbundenen Städtebau- und Umweltprobleme kommt immer wieder der Vorschlag einer Korrektur des modal split zugunsten des ÖPNV auf, und zwar insbesondere bezüglich der Berufs- und Ausbildungsverkehre....